Hyderabad, May 22 -- The Supreme Court on Wednesday, May 21, granted bail to former secretary general of Kerala unit of the banned Popular Front of India (PFI), Abdul Sathar, stating that a person cannot be jailed based on their ideology.

"You cannot put someone in jail for their ideology. This is the trend we find. It is because they have adopted a particular ideology, they are put in jail," a bench of Justice Abhay S Oka and Justice Ujjal Bhuyan told the counsel appearing for the National Investigation Agency (NIA).

Sathar was arrested in 2022 for his alleged involvement in the murder of the BJP OBC Morcha state secretary and an RSS worker, Ranjith Sreenivasan, in Palakkad.

Sreenivasan was killed on December 19, 2021, reportedly by m...